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All lots of fun, but kdb has an eye watering cost of 200k dollars per year per server. Here's hoping some combo of Apache Arrow (also cache aware, much more la
by vegabook 10y ago
All lots of fun, but kdb has an eye watering cost of 200k dollars per year per server.
Here's hoping some combo of Apache Arrow (also cache aware, much more language stack flexibilty), Aerospike (lua built in), Impala, and others, can finally take on this overpriced product, which has had a lack of serious competitors for 20 years, owing to its (price inelastic) finance client base.
- atemerev 10y agoThe binary file of the database (all-inclusive and statically linked) is around 300 kilobytes (!), which makes is probably the most expensive (non-custom) software per kilobyte.
- geocar 10y agokdb is not statically linked. edit: $ file q/l64/q q/l64/q: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18,
- kpierre 10y ago> Apache Arrow (also cache aware, much more cross platform) kdb+ is available for raspberry pi, is that cross platform enough? https://kx.com/2016/06/08/kx-releases-raspberry-pi-build-with-libraries/ https://kx.com/2016/06/08/kx-releases-raspberry-pi-build-wit...
- vegabook 10y ago32 bit. Please be serious. You know full well that for all non-toy work kdb is exhorbitantly expensive.
- bladecatcher 10y agoAre you sure about that? I think it's significantly lower than 200k